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Every person should have access to quality health care. Through our own clinics and our partners, we offer patients treatment, prevention and health management services – the foundation of a productive life full of opportunity and possibility.

Quality Care for Connecticut's Uninsured

Nobody should have to choose between paying for food and paying for health care. Sadly, it’s a crisis that many Americans face. Here in our home state of Connecticut, where more than 172,000 residents live without health insurance, Americares operates four free clinics – in Danbury, Norwalk, Bridgeport and Stamford. The clinics bring together skilled volunteers and donated services to provide quality care to uninsured residents, helping more people get the primary care and medicines they need but cannot afford.

Americares Free Clinics are at the heart of a caring community, bringing together skilled volunteers and donated services from area health care providers, including hospitals and diagnostic laboratories, to serve our neighbors in need.

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Americares Family Clinic in El Salvador

InEl Salvador, where 1 out of 5 sick people can't afford the medication they need to get well, theClínica Integral de Atención Familiar in Santiago de María provides quality health care, medications, and outreach services to thousands of underserved families. Click on the arrow and visit the clinic via 360 video andsee a thriving local health center in action.

Good Health for Many More People

Since its founding by Americares in 2003, the Family Clinic in El Salvador has provided diagnostic services and treatment for a range of conditions, from acute illness, to chronic and communicable diseases – often working on the front lines of disease outbreaks such as Zika. The work of the Clinic is built on the basic precepts of primary health care: Promotion, Prevention, Healing and Rehabilitation.

Omar was diagnosed with an infection and treated by a clinic pediatrician. A few months later, he was back in the office for a follow up appointment and was happy and healthy.

60,000

Today, as a full-service clinic for all ages, it serves about 60,000 patients.

The Americares Family Clinic is staffed by a dedicated group of local doctors, dentists, a psychologist, registered nurses and licensed technicians who provide a number of comprehensive Health Care Services, including:

Community Health Education is the Key

The majority of the health problems facing the community served by the clinic can often be attributed to conditional environmental factors, human behaviors and social determinants of health. Therefore the clinic offers regular health education programs to individuals who seek treatment from the clinic as well as within the surrounding community. The clinic conducts educational activities based on health promotion and prevention, covering over 30 various topics and reaching thousands of families.

In addition to programs offered onsite, clinic staff provided services in the community at local health fairs and visits to local schools. Topics have included oral hygiene, breast feeding, and a disease prevention initiative to help diabetics learn how to manage their condition. Additionally, the staff has introduced courses on challenges facing adolescents and countering domestic violence.

Educational outreach is a critical component of the clinic’s work in the community and beyond. Here medical staff help the community learn about mosquito control.

Clinic History

The Clinic opened in 2003 under an agreement between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Americares as part of USAID’s Earthquake Recovery Program. Under this agreement, the clinic was jointly funded by both organizations through September 30, 2004. Americares now assumes all operating responsibility for the clinic. The clinic is supported through donations from individuals, corporations and foundations in El Salvador and the United States and represents a model of quality health care.

The clinic provides ongoing education and informational resources to promote prevention and good health practices at home and throughout the community.

The clinic offers comprehensive services that improve the lives of thousands of people throughout the region served.

The clinic gives families access to medicines and supplies that can help them heal and stay healthy

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Americares India now sends seven mobile health centres into Mumbai slum neighborhoods six days a week, providing quality primary care and health education. More than 140,000 patient consultations have been conducted since the program began.

Health care for people who once had none

In the slums of Mumbai, India people live in crushing poverty, suffering from infection and disease spread by overcrowded, unsanitary conditions. With little or no health care access, Americares India brings health care to the people who need it most.

The vans regularly visit specific locations to encourage people in the community to follow up on initial visits knowing that they have ongoing health care access.

Dr. Verughese visiting families served by the mobile medical clinics

Six days a week, our fully-equipped mobile health centres bring health care to impoverished families in dozens of locations. Hundreds of patients a day benefit from the medical vans' on-site services and free medicines. For most patients, this is the only time they will ever see a doctor. Immediate needs are met, referrals made when necessary, and chronic diseases identified and treated on an ongoing basis.

Each fully-equipped mobile health centre is staffed with a doctor, pharmacy assistant and driver so that the immediate health care needs of the slum dwellers can be assessed and treated, and proper referrals can be made when necessary. Another focus of the mobile health unit is to identify and care for patients with chronic diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure, and to provide them with a continuous supply of free medicines. Electronic health records for all patients are maintained to monitor the program and to facilitate follow-up treatments.

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Americares is approved by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501 (C) (3) tax-exempt organization, and all donations are tax deductible to the extent provided by law. Americares Federal Identification Number (EIN) is 061008595. Member of Reuters Alertnet.